themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoThis CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it againfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThis CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it againfortune.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squaredeathbird@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days ago“Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels.” So the people that understood it best were sceptical, and this didn’t give him pause. Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?
minus-squareMysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoTechnical staff were skeptical because they actually know what AI can and can’t do reliably in production environments - it’s good at generating content but terrible at logical reasoning and mission-critical tasks that require consistancy.
minus-squareEnd-Stage-Ligma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 days ago it’s good at generating content but terrible at logical reasoning and mission-critical tasks that require consistency. Thank goodness nobody is crusading to have AI take over medicine.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoSo it’s the CEO they should replace.
minus-squareBenaaasaaas@group.ltlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoBecause they try the tools, realize that their job is pretty much covered by LLMs and think it’s the same for everyone.
“Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels.”
So the people that understood it best were sceptical, and this didn’t give him pause.
Can someone explain to me why all these empty suits dick ride LLMs so hard?
Technical staff were skeptical because they actually know what AI can and can’t do reliably in production environments - it’s good at generating content but terrible at logical reasoning and mission-critical tasks that require consistancy.
Thank goodness nobody is crusading to have AI take over medicine.
So it’s the CEO they should replace.
Because they try the tools, realize that their job is pretty much covered by LLMs and think it’s the same for everyone.